10000+ Motivational and Inspiring Quotes About Life, Love & Success

I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought,

but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.

You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

Logic will get you from A to B.

Imagination will take you everywhere.

If you can't explain it simply,

you don't understand it well enough.

If there should prove to be one real,

living Free State Democrat in Kansas,

I suggest that it might be well to catch him and stuff

and preserve his skin as an interesting specimen of

that soon to be extinct variety of the genus Democrat.

I was born and have ever remained in

the most humble walks of life.

I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward,

and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause.

Upon the subjects of which I have treated,

I have spoken as I have thought.

I may be wrong in regard to any or all of them; but,

holding it a sound maxim that it is better only sometimes to be

right than at all times to be wrong,

so soon as I discover my opinions to be erroneous,

I shall be ready to renounce them.

It is a great piece of folly to attempt to

make anything out of my early life.

There may sometimes be ungenerous attempts to

keep a young man down; and they will succeed,

too, if he allows his mind to be diverted from

its true channel to brood over the attempted injury.

It is rather for us here dedicated to the great task

remaining before us, that from these honored dead

we take increased devotion to that cause for

which they gave the last full measure of devotion.

The point the power to hurt

of all figures lies in the truthfulness of their application.

I perhaps ought to say that individually

I never was much interested in the Texas question.

I never could see much good to come of annexation,

inasmuch as they were already

a free republican people on our own model.

Concede that the new government of Louisiana

is only to what it should be, as the egg is to the fowl;

we shall sooner have the fowl by hatching the egg

than by smashing it.

He who molds the public sentiment...

makes statutes and decisions possible or impossible to make.

As our case is new,

we must think and act anew.

I think that slavery is wrong, morally,

socially and politically.

I desire that it should be no further spread in these United States,

and I should not object if it should gradually

terminate in the whole Union.

Upon the subject of education,

not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it,

I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we,

as a people, can be engaged in.

'A living dog is better than a dead lion.' Judge Douglas,

if not a dead lion for this work,

is at least a caged and toothless one.

How can he oppose the advances of slavery?

He don't care anything about it.

Whatever woman may cast her lot with mine,

should any ever do so,

it is my intention to do all in my power to

make her happy and contented;

and there is nothing I can imagine that would

make me more unhappy than to fail in the effort.